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Follow the cloud
Each monster plays a note. The clouds help you play the tune. Click/tap the monster or its cloud as it turns white. If you can time it right, the tune will be more recognisable.
The notes shown below the monsters will help you recreate the tune on a keyboard.
Discussion points
- Can you sing along to the song being played?
- What do you notice as you play up and down the scale?
- Can you try playing a scale like this on a tuned musical instrument, like a keyboard?
- A crochet has a time value of 1 beat.
- Can you try playing the tune on a tuned musical instrument, like a keyboard?
- Which notes have a high pitch? Which have a lower pitch?
Teaching tips:
This is a great starting point in preparation for playing tuned and untuned instruments musically. Children will see the visual increase in size of the monsters to represent the increase in pitch as you move up the scale.
Try ‘Monster scale’ next to get children playing and recording their own songs on the musical scale.
Try ‘Monster scale’ next to get children playing and recording their own songs on the musical scale.
Children could use tuned instruments alongside the activity to practise playing musical instruments accurately.
Try ‘Monster scale’ next to get children playing and recording their own songs on the musical scale.
Try ‘Monster scale’ next to get children playing and recording their own songs on the musical scale.
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